Baker Wire Co. v. Kingman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was an action brought in the district court of Saline county, on June 21,1888, by the Baker Wire Company, a corporation of the state of Iowa, against Freeman Kingman, Frank Kingman, A. D. Kelley, and J. T. Kelley, copartners as Kingman & Kelley, to recover on two promissory notes and an account not due. An affidavit was filed in the ease for an attachment, setting forth among other grounds therefor, that the defendants—

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